leafy

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Trees - general words
arboreal
barky
black walnut
bosky
burl
burr
deciduous
dendro-
dendrophile
emergent
evergreen
old growth
palmy
sapling
shade tree
state tree
timberline
treetop
walnut
weeping

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Parts of plants

Examples of leafless

leafless
Flies fairly plentiful in open country, with short grass interspersed with palms and stumpy trees, generally leafless.
Flies present in grass country with thin scattering of small thornless and almost leafless trees, but few seen.
The leafless period was defined as the time between the first census when a plant became leafless and the first census when it flushed again.
Trees were classed as dead if they were leafless and with a complete ring of dead cambium at breast height.
Country is fairly thickly covered with trees, but they are leafless at this time of the year.
Of these 90 seedlings, 26% were either uprooted completely or were represented by a leafless stem.
They never appear leafless during the entire year.
The leafless period for each species was calculated as the mean leafless duration of individuals.
On the hills around, the forest is leafless and affords but little shade.
Relationships between leafless period and leaf strategy index, wood density or saturation water content were examined across different species.
The leafless period was three times longer for understorey plants compared to gap plants, which suggests that they experience a substantially longer dry period.
The summer aspect is pale and parched because of the leafless trees and shrubs and a dried-up herb layer.
Conspecific trees showed asynchrony with respect to leaf-flush completion, initiation and completion of leaf-fall, and extent of leafless period.
Country different-broken and stony, with thick shrubby undergrowth, at present absolutely leafless and charred by fire.
Leafless undergrowth is the prevailing feature.
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